Hometown Unicorn

Infobox Single
Name = Hometown Unicorn


Artist = Super Furry Animals
from Album = Fuzzy Logic
Released = 26 February, 1996
Format = CD (CRESCD222)
MC (CRECS222)
7" (CRE222)
Recorded =
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 3:33
Label = Creation Records
Writer = Super Furry Animals
Producer = Gorwel Owen, Super Furry Animals
[ Certification = ]
Chart position =
* #47 (UK)
Last single =
This single = "Hometown Unicorn"
(1996)
Next single = God! Show Me Magic
(1996)

"Hometown Unicorn" is the debut single by Super Furry Animals, released on Alan McGee's Creation Records label on February 26, 1996. It reached #47 in the UK Singles Chart and was voted as "Single of the Week" in the NME magazine.

The packaging of the single features a quote in Welsh, 'Bydded goleuni!', which means 'Let there be light!' in English. This practise of including Welsh quotes was followed by every subsequent SFA single up to, and including, the release of "Demons" in 1997.

Critical response

The track appears in Garry Mulholland's book "This Is Uncool", a list of the "500 greatest singles since punk and disco".cite web | url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/thisisuncool.htm|title=This Is Uncool|accessdate=2008-08-04|publisher=RockListMusic]

Tracklisting

All songs by Super Furry Animals.

#"Hometown Unicorn" – 3:35
#"Lazy Life (Of No Fixed Identity)" – 2:15
#"Don't Be A Fool, Billy!" – 4:17

References